Cucumis sativus

Habitat & History

It
is thought that the cucumber originated
in the wild at the foothills of the
northern India mountains were similar
species still grow but it wasn’t until
3,000 years ago when the cucumber was
fist cultivated in India.
From India it was then spread through out
Greece
and Western Europe.When Columbus came to America, he
brought with him many cultivational
crops which included the cucumber, where
it was eventually cultivated by the
Native Americans and the Colonists in
eastern North America as far north as
Canada as seen in Figure 1.

Figure
1.

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adaptations this plant has made to live
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